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Martin68

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2. It makes me sick. Trump ran on lies like "our cities are war zones," and then he actually created war zones in blue
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 12:30 PM
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state cities to force compliance with his lawless policies and beat Democrats into submission. He lies about crime, claiming that crime rates in urban areas are going up when they've been coming steadily down since the pandemic. And then he unleashes a horde of criminals to terrorize, kidnap, rob, and kill law-abiding citizens and nobody who looks like a person of color. It is the classic playbook of the fascist wannabe: falsely accuse your opponents of doing exactly what you are planning to do.

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